Sumitomo Wiring System, Ltd.

Tutomu Yoshimura

Michio Fukuda

Teiji Sakuma

An automatic wire press-connecting and laying out apparatus for a wire harness has, as its main portion, a wire press-connecting and laying out portion, comprising a wire feed portion having a wire feeding mechanism for individually feeding out wires and a wire severing mechanism for individually severing wires for feeding out wires, separate cassette lay-out boards detachably and horizontally disposed on a frame table in such a manner as to be opposite to each other via a depression and each having a group of connectors detachably arranged at predetermined positions thereon, and a head portion provided in such a manner as to vertically suspend over the cassette lay-out boards and having a transfer means for enabling the head portion to move to a relative position defined by orthogonal X and Y axis dimensions of the cassette lay-out boards, a wire drawing mechanism for individually drawing wires and a wire press-connecting mechanism comprising a plurality of wire press-connecting portions arranged in parallel. These wire drawing and wire press-connecting mechanisms are provided in such a manner as to face downwardly. A wire dimension adjusting mechanism for adjusting the dimension of individual wires is provided either on the wire feeding mechanism or on the wire drawing mechanism, and the head portion clamps wires protruding from the distal end of the wire feed portion and sequentially distributes the clamped wires to the connectors so as to be press-connected thereto. The wires are individually severed after the dimension of the individual wires has been adjusted, and the wires are laid out in a required configuration with the intermediate portions thereof being allowed to suspend into the depression so as to be received therein.

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Yokkaichi, Japan

Tutomu Yoshimura